Posted
by
mojoski
on Wednesday February 18, 1998 @03:08PM
from the bragging-on-my-bro dept.

In what can only be described as a huge advance in quantum transitior
technolgy, The San Jose Mercury News is reporting that researchers at Sandia National Laboratories have demonstrated
a method of making these devices stable enough for potential use in computing
applications.

The Sandia quantum transistor is not the first to use a quantum mechanical
effect called ``tunneling'' to compute. Experimental quantum tunneling
devices were first made nearly a decade ago.

But Sandia's is the first to be made using common manufacturing techniques
that would allow many of the devices to be strung together to compute
en masse, said physicist Jerry Simmons, leader of the Sandia development
team.

And you know what the coolest part of this story is? Jerry Simmons is my
brother! Go man, go! I can only hope that he'll remember the little people in his
life when he sells this technology to chipmakers world-wide! *wink*